Press releases

List of press Articles

  1. IPPR response to TUC research on ill-health at work - expansion of Fit for Work needed to help those in smaller businesses

    esponse to new TUC analysis showing ill-health or disability is forcing one-in-eight people to stop working before they reach pension age.
  2. Being mean-spirited on citizenship could hit the NHS and cost UK plc

    PPR calls on new Home Secretary Amber Rudd to reform citizenship rules to stop a post-Brexit brain-drain harming the economy.
  3. May can’t take back control if she remains wedded to a blunt and ineffective net migration target – IPPR

    he Government can only meet public demands to ‘take back control’ of immigration if it ditches its counter-productive net migration target and adopts a strategic approach fit for our modern economy, IPPR warn today.
  4. Collapse in holiday work hitting young people’s chances in job market - IPPR

    ew analysis shows young people want to work and get the skills they need – but government, business, schools and universities need to do more to give them that chance
  5. New apprenticeship programme needs to go further to benefit young people - IPPR

    oung people lose out twice: over 25s get more places and many apprenticeships are poor quality
  6. Transport Secretary urged to close £1,600 per person London-North spending gap

  7. North East shaking off ‘low skills’ history

  8. Devolving Work Programme to mayors could unlock £9,000 per claimant

  9. IPPR says Chancellor should set out plans on investment and tax following his fiscal reset comments

  10. Employment stats - IPPR say quick action needed to limit potential Brexit vote damage

  11. Inflation stats - a Brexit surge would hit poorest households twice as hard as the richest

  12. The education system makes children lose a whole year’s education - IPPR

    eachers are trapped in a system that discourages excellence in classroom teaching, wastes £1 billion a year on training, and costs children a whole year’s worth of education.